[MusicTlk] Calling any Band in a Box for Windows users: I've got a question.

[Christopher Gilland]

For those who may be subscribed using Band in A Box from PG Music, I 
have a quick question.


Will BIAB allow you to have multiple audio tracks in a song? I know that 
you can overdub on underlying audio in the record audio dialog, but let 
me give you two example scenareos:


Say I had a male vocalist, and a female vocalist. I don't want them both 
on that 1 audio track. That would be a disaster! I'd want each on their 
own separate audio track that I could then apply plugins to separately, 
or could individually turn up or down.


I know that BIAB isn't really meant to be a multi-track DAW. It's more 
of an arranger. I totally get that! I know Real Band could do it as I 
describe, but I'm not thinking accessibility really would be there. 
Before you say use Reaper or something for things like this, number 1, I 
hate Reaper, but that's another discussion altogether...


Here's the other thing, the main reason why I'm asking this question.


I'm really digging the built in auto harmonizer part of BIAB. I 
absolutely love what it's doing with my vocal track. The only thing is, 
if I record my lead vocal in BIAB, then I go back and add harmoney 
through the audio editer window, that harmoney is gonna go for the whole 
song. But, what if I don't want that? What if I only want the harmoney 
on certain parts of the song? I don't know how to separate out the vocal 
with nothing from that with the generated harmoney, if that makes any 
sense. like, say that Bar 10 through 20 was the chorus, and I only 
wanted harmoney on the chorus but not the verse. And I'm speaking of the 
usual concept of a chorus, not this convoluted way that BIAB thinks of it.


Or what if I wanted to change the type generated harmoney at some point 
in the song so that it's not the same linear type the whole way through 
the song, as that just gets totally boring.


One could say, just learn and sing the harmoney yourself, but please, 
that's not the point here, so let's not go down that rabbit hole. I have 
very specific reasons why I want to do it this way instead.


Any thoughts?


Chris.